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Pierre Poussin is a Queer French Mauritian-Canadian artist who specializes in large-scale sculpture and public art. His artistic goal is to bring joy, wonder and discovery into public spaces. He believes that art has the power to empower, to enrich and excite the soul, as well as being inclusive, accessible and meaningful for a community. Pierre thinks art should be tailor-made for the space it inhabits, and just as importantly, for the people and community that the artwork serves. His work explores the contrasts that exist in our surroundings, blending elements of nature, industry, history, and technology. He focuses on creating permanent public art installations and sculptures that animate their surroundings and the communities they serve.
For the past 15 years, Pierre has had the opportunity of creating dozens of permanent public artworks across Canada including multiple free-standing sculptures and integrated public art installations for architectural and landscaping firms, urban developers, as well as municipal and federal public art programs for cities across the country, including: Ottawa, Toronto, Edmonton, Collingwood and Vancouver.
His upcoming projects include a series of public artworks for the City of Ottawa's Westboro and Sherbourne LRT stations. Forage will be a collection of over-sized freestanding fossilized mushrooms crafted with weathered-steel and Local Lichen will be a series of low-relief sculptures created in part by recreating a lichen growth algorithm to help generate natural growth patterns and reassembling them using traditional rug-making techniques.
Another upcoming public art project is entitled Saga, and created for the Town of Collingwood, Ontario. It will comprise of two 9.1m (30’) tall lighthouses with etched drawings inspired directly by the first and last ships built in the area, helping to commemorate the importance of Collingwood’s historic shipbuilding industry.
Pierre’s most recent work includes: Brick Obelisk, for The City of Toronto, Cascades, for The City of Ottawa, Esprit, for The City of Edmonton, and Ursa, for One Water Street Towers (Kelowna, BC) by The North American Development Group and Kerkhoff Construction. Over the years, he has had the pleasure of working with a diverse range of clients including: The 2010 Winter Olympics and Paralympics Games, Sheridan College, Princeton University, McMaster University, Nienkämper Furniture, Concord Adex Developments' Lakeshore Panorama, Quartz & Lumen Condominium Towers (Toronto, ON), Diamante Developments' Yorkville Florian Tower (Toronto, ON), Pinnacle International Developments' Crystal Tower for Uptown (Mississauga, ON), Toronto’s Royal Canadian Yacht Club, the Walt Disney Corporation. Pierre studied biochemistry at the University of Ottawa and Furniture Design at Sheridan College.